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Showing 40 organizations in all target populations, all focus areas, 1 department.

Maya Health Alliance | Wuqu' Kawoq

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Wuqu ’Kawoq is innovating a healthcare model focused on providing high quality services with linguistic and cultural competence for indigenous, poor and marginalized communities in Guatemala.

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Chimaltenango (Tecpán), Suchitepéquez, Sacatepéquez, Quiché, Quetzaltenango, and 2 more

CARE Guatemala

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CARE works around the world to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. It is a leading global organization with more than 75 years of experience that puts women and girls at the center because it recognizes that poverty cannot be overcome until all people have equal rights and opportunities.

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Guatemala, Chimaltenango, Sacatepéquez, Escuintla, Suchitepéquez, and 10 more

Asociación de Mujeres Ixpiyakok ADEMI

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We are a civil organization of indigenous women of the Mayan culture, we support and work in solidarity with rural development, promoting the empowerment and autonomy of women in the various areas of their daily lives.

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Chimaltenango, Quiché, Sololá

Food for the Hungry / Fundación contra el Hambre

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Food for the Hungry / Fundación Contra el Hambre is an international non-profit organization that works with the objective of facilitating holistic transformation in 215 communities in Guatemala. We work together with families to build self-sustainable communities in the departments of Alta Verapaz, Quiché and Huehuetenango, focused on ending chronic childhood malnutrition.

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Huehuetenango (Santiago Chimaltenango), Quiché (Chajul), Alta Verapaz (San Juan Chamelco)

Fundación LuzAgro

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LuzAgro is a Guatemalan foundation that was created in 2020 in order to improve the quality of life of families and agricultural communities through reliable programs and tools that will promote their development.

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Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Escuintla, Quiché, and 7 more

Sharing the Dream in Guatemala

As a fair trade organization, Sharing the Dream works with more than 20 groups of artisans around Guatemala, helping them to improve and sell their products. We operate an Elder Center in Santiago, where we provide meals, medical care, and care to more than 60 Maya elders. We also provide scholarships to a small group of promising students who must attend tutoring sessions, complete volunteer hours, and participate in reading activities in exchange for their scholarship.

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Sololá (San Lucas Toliman), Chiquimula (San Jacinto), Petén (Flores), Quiché (Chichicastenango), Alta Verapaz (Tamahu)

KWA

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Our goal is to provide girls and adolescents in rural communities with a safe space to learn about their lives, strengthen their support networks and equip them with life skills.

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Quiché (Uspantan)

Asociación Westmont Bethel

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Westmont Bethel is an organization that aims to provide health and education to vulnerable groups in society. We work in the health sector providing medical care for recovery of mental and physical health at affordable prices. In education, we want to provide better access to education for vulnerable children through extracurricular educational programs so that they can improve their opportunities in the medium and long term.

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Quiché (Uspantán), Guatemala (San Miguel Petapa)

Cooperative for Education

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Since 1996, Cooperative for Education has been committed to breaking the cycle of poverty in Guatemala through education. Our sustainable textbook, computer, reading, and youth development programs have transformed the lives of more than a quarter million students. We empower rural Guatemalan communities to transform their own quality of education, with a focus on evening the playing field for girls, who are typically excluded from education.

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Izabal, Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, El Progreso, and 8 more

Lets Be Ready

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We support teachers for 2 preschool programs in Guatemala:Pequeños Pero Listos and Aula Magica.

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Chimaltenango, Sololá, Huehuetenango, Santa Rosa, Quiché

Poder y Luz Maya

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PODER Y LUZ MAYA ONG, was formally constituted in 2020 and is defined as a non-profit NGO that works for the protection of the environment, public health and economic development in communities, through education and distribution of appropriate and renewable technologies throughout Guatemala.

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Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, Sololá, Totonicapán, and 1 more

Worthy Village

Worthy Village is a nonprofit organization that supports vulnerable communities in rural Guatemala.

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Huehuetenango, Quiché

Tierra Nueva ONG

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Tierra Nueva is a non-governmental organization that operates in the Western Highlands area of Guatemala; it develops programs and projects focused on providing support to children, adolescents, youth and women, seeking that these age groups have the opportunities and resources necessary to achieve a comprehensive development. Tierra Nueva is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-partisan, non-religious, non-religious, development and service organization, with gender equity and multicultural approach.

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Huehuetenango, Quiché, Quetzaltenango, San Marcos

Fundación Educación y Cooperación -Educo-

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Educo is a global development cooperation NGO that has been working for more than 25 years in favor of children and in defense of their rights. We work through social projects in which more than 550,000 children and 150,000 adults participate. In Guatemala, we are present in the departments of Quiché, Huehuetenango and Totonicapán. The projection of our coverage area includes the western highlands of Guatemala, in the departments of San Marcos, Quetzaltenango and Sololá.

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Totonicapán (Momostenango), Quiché (Santa Cruz del Quiché), Huehuetenango (Santa Bárbara)

Kateri Tekakwitha Fund

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The Kateri Fund awards scholarships for Healthcare professionals, supports internships for recently graduated women so they can gain experience in their career, and supports self-generated projects for two women's groups in the Guatemalan Highlands.

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Chimaltenango, Sololá, Quiché (Chichicastenango)

Asociación para el Desarrollo Rural Integral -ADRI-

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We are a non-profit Guatemalan civil organization, created on March 1, 2010 in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, with the purpose of promoting integral community development in rural areas of the country. We have a 100% local work team, dynamic, strengthened and committed to the scope of the development indicators established by the association; with intervention in the municipalities of the departments of Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz and Quiche.

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Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Quiché

Partner for Surgery

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Partner for Surgery serves with the goal to improve health, empower communities, and overcome barriers. We are on the front lines of medical and surgical care in rural Guatemala focusing on bringing quality health care and surgical solutions to where most impoverished Guatemalans live. Our service model allows us to bridge language, distance, and cultural barriers. And our health promoters, staff, volunteers, and donors all partner to ensure our programs secure the solution each patient needs, from the time we meet them in their communities until we return home with them after surgery.

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Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Quiché, Jutiapa, Sacatepéquez, and 7 more

School the World

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School the World is a community-driven nonprofit committed to solving extreme poverty through the power of education by working in Guatemala, Honduras and Panama.

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Quiché

AMACHAJUL

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Chajulense Mayan Association (AMACHAJUL) AMACHAJUL is a Guatemalan Mayan Ixil non-profit organization located in Chajul, Guatemala. The Ixil region is a post-conflict community that suffered an ethical cleansing during the 36-year internal armed conflict. Schools were closed for 36 years. Today there is deep poverty and few opportunities for women and girls to break out of the cycle.

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Asociación Senderos de Maíz Guatemala

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We are a non-profit association who work with a human rights based approach facilitating processes for the inclusion of people with disabilities, focusing primarily on women with visual and hearing impairments in the areas of education, health, social, economic empowerment and advocacy. We are using the community-based Inclusive Development strategy. We have been legally constituted in 2017 and our territorial coverage are in the departments of Sololá and Quiche.

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Sololá, Quiché (Chichicastenango)

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